Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 21st Sep 2008 06:46 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Greg KH, Linux kernel developer delivered a keynote in the Linux plumbing conference about the health of the ecosystem. His message was essentially that distributions that don't contribute to the ecosystem have to rely on the whims of others which is unhealthy for them. Here is an introduction the development model and some interesting statistics about the Linux kernel code. Update by TH: Rebuttals are appearing all over the web, like this one by Canonical's Matt Zimmerman ("He's refuting a claim which has, quite simply, never been made. [...] When this sort of thing happens on mailing lists, it's called trolling."), or this one by another Canonical employee, Dustin Kirkland.
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RE: An Interesting name o the List...
by segedunum on Sun 21st Sep 2008 08:56
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RE[2]: An Interesting name o the List...
by Ethyriel on Sun 21st Sep 2008 20:33
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Is none other than Broadcomm.
For a company that on the surface seems to think that the word Linux does not exist and encounters the wrath on many a Laptop owner who can't use the WiFi networking because it has a Broadcomm chip (without lots of effort that)it is surprising that they are openly contributing to Kernel Development.